Adobe Flash: Animate CC, New Name For Flash Professional; New Tool Features Announced!

by Krezna de los Reyes / Dec 03, 2015 05:30 AM EST

Adobe recently announced that Flash Professional CC has acquired a new name.

Adobe's Vice President, Paul Gubbay, said, "The name change is reflective of the fact that we rebuilt this tool to be platform agnostic," according to Fortune.

"The name Flash Professional associates it with one slice of technology, and it's not the one people are focused on now when they're thinking about building new animations for the web," Gubbay added.

Adobe Flash Professional CC was renamed to Adobe Animate CC so that the company can encourage web content creators and developers to utilize new web standards with the use of the new tool, reported by The Verge.

Adobe Animate CC supports HTML5 for desktops and as of the company's statement, the company wants to "evolve to support multiple standards," according to Wired.

The Adobe Flash Professional CC product team has been developing the new tool for several years to support WebGL, HTML5 Canvas and to produce outputs in any format like SVG, SWF and AIR that's important for Adobe users, according to ZDNET.

The newly renamed Adobe Animate CC will be compatible with Google and Microsoft browsers that still supports Flash videos. Adobe has also announced a collaboration with Facebook to share security data from Flash-based games to make sure users can avoid risks from the web, according to Business Insider.

The previous Adobe Flash was developed in purpose to create web based games and animations but its functionality lacked on support for smartphones. Gamers finds Flash pages to load slow and results to draining the battery life.

Also, it has been speculated to have security risk issues when it comes to internet browsing. Adobe Flash stopped working on Android in 2012 because of its minimal support for the platform.

Adobe Flash still doesn't support Apple's iOS since Steve Jobs decided not to allow the system into their iPhone since its first release in 2007. Steve Jobs defended the company's decision in 2010 because of its battery and interface issues.